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Cast and crew of 'Working' to perform at Kennedy Cente
By Deanna Jent
Many Wesleyan students and
faculty will be taking an ab-breviated
Spring Break.
That's because the 35 member
cast and crew of the musical
"Working" will be going to
Washington D.C. to perform in
the Kennedy Center as the open-ing
production in the Amoco
American College Theatre Festi-val.
In January, "Working" partici-pated
in the regional A.C.T.F.
competitions in Rockford. There
are nine such regional compet-tions
across the United States,
and from these nine festivals, six
shows are chosen to perform at
the Kennedy Center.
"WORKING" WAS reportedly
rated the highest of the six shows
chosen for Washington, based on
numerical ratings given by
judges at the regional competi-tions.
Because of this honor, the
School of Drama will be very hec-tic
in the month of March. A chil-dren's
show will be presented in
McPherson on March 16, 17 and
18, just one week after "One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest" closes.
ACTF Winners
And just four days after the chil-dren's
show closes, on March 22,
a benefit performance of "Work-ing"
will be presented.
The benefit performance helps
both cast and crew get re-adjus-ted
to an audience, and helps
solidify the show in preparation
for the Kennedy Center perfor-mance.
SPRING BREAK starts March
23, but only five days later the
crew will return to campus to
load up the trucks. Set pieces,
costumes, props, instruments
and all the paraphenilla it takes
to make "Working" work will be
taken to Washington in these
trucks.
The rest of the people involved
in the show will be flown out to
Washington on April 1. "Work-ing"
is scheduled to be presented
three times: an evening perfor-mance
on April 2, and matinee
and evening performances on
April 3. The cast and crew will be
flown back to Illinois on April 4.
Ticket information for the
benefit performance of "Work-ing"
may be obtained by calling
556-3232, or by visiting the
McPherson Theatre Box Office
between 12:30 and 5:30 daily.
ILLINOIS WESLEYA
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN
UtIVERSIY IARIES
MAR
N
DEVOTED
"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
-A Graffito
TO THE CONCEPT OF FREE PRESS
Volume 90 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, March 2, 1984 Number 20
Brian to retire from School of Art By Mary Jane Helm
When Fred B. Brian retires this
spring to become Professor of
Art, Emeritus, he will leave a
faculty position which he has held
for 32 years, as well as an art
department extensively expand-ed
during his stay.
"Wesleyan has always been
unique in the fine arts," Brian
said, "That's one of the reasons
I've stayed."
Brian had an additional four-year
acquaintance with Wesley-an,
as he graduated from here in
1950, two years before assuming
his role as a faculty member. He
received a master of arts degree
in painting from the University of
Iowa in 1951.
IN 1971, Brian attained the top
faculty rank of professor and
served as acting director of the
School of Art from 1971-1973. At
the time he came to Wesleyan,
the art department was under the
School of Music. Gradually, the
department became independent
and began awarding bachelor of
fine arts degrees, Brian said.
Play explore:
By Deanna Jent
Are the lunatics inside the
asylums, or out?
And who's to say who's really
crazy?
These are some of the questions
explored in "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest," which plays in
McPherson Theatre March 1, 2, 3,
7, 8, 9, 10.
BASED ON THE novel by Ken
Kesey, the play (written by Dale
Wasserman) has been billed as a
"tragicomedy." This label ex-presses
a modern philosophy
which is also apparent through-out
the show: the seeming absur-dity
of life is both comic and
tragic.
"Cuckoo's Nest" takes place in
the day ward of a state mental
hospital. There are the acutes
(patients who can be helped
through therapy) and the
chronics (incurables). The
acutes include Dale Harding (D.
Scott Karnuth), Billy Bibbit (An-
Under Brian's guidance, the
printmaking department has ex-panded
steadily to include such
other media as intaglio, relief
painting, letterpress, book
design, photo-engraving, and
serigraphy. He explained that
anything printed is graphics, and
is still considered fine art. "It's
not commercial or graphic art,"
he said, "But it's design to
graphics."
Through the years, Brian has
witnessed a change, too, in the at-titudes
of students majoring in
art. They are more into graphic
design, he said, and more con-cerned
with job security after
they leave college. "It used to be
that students were almost exclu-sively
"fine art'," Brian said,
"They were pretty adventure-some
then, but if you look at most
of them now, they have jobs."
"I THINK THE business at
hand [in college] is to learn all
you can about your field," Brian
said. He said he encourages stu-dents
to go on to graduate school,
the question
drew Kreiss), Scanlon (Bryan
Jung), Cheswick (Daniel Cun-ningham),
and Martini (Willard
Walker). The chronics are
Ruckley (Steve Pickering) and a
deaf and mute Indian - Chief
Bromden (David Ratner).
A wise-cracking con-artist,
Randle P. McMurphy (John
Neisler), comes into the ward. A
transfer from the state work
farm, McMurphy turns out to be
a guiding influence on the other
patients, especially Chief
Bromden.
OPPOSING McMurphy's reck-less
approach to modern group
therapy is Nurse Ratched (Melin-da
MacDonald). Flanked by her
aides (Rick Lunn, James Unger),
an ineffectual doctor (Fredrick
Rubeck), and a nervous nurse
(Carol Mills), Ratched runs the
ward as precisely and effectively
as she starches her sterile white
uniform.
and Wesleyan usually has one or
two who do so each year.
While teaching, Brian has con-tinued
his own work, gaining
recognition throughout the
Midwest for works such as his
Willie Burmeister series which
depicts a fictional Lake Superior
airmail pilot.
Brian has not neglected his
faculty position, however, and
was named the IWU Century
Club Honoree for 1978-1979 by stu-dents
and faculty colleagues for
teaching excellence. Despite the
variety of courses taught by
Brian and other faculty in the art
department, Brian said, "I still
teach fine arts 100 per cent."
BRIAN PLANS TO resettle
soon in the Minneapolis/St. Paul
vicinity and set up a print studio.
He plans to do work there for
poets and writers, as well as
making his own prints, he said.
"Wesleyan's been pretty good
to me," Brian said. After 32 years
here, he's had plenty of time to
decide.
of craziness
The war between McMurphy
and Ratched leaves many battle-scars,
and none of the patients is
left unscathed. The "tragedy" of
Randle McMurphy is not classic
tragedy, but rather a tragedy of
modern society. When "crazy" is
in the eyes of the beholder -
when regulations run roughshod
over reality - there is definitely
a problem that needs examina-tion.
"Cuckoo's Nest" puts these
societal problems under the
miscroscope for all to view.
Other members of the cast are
Barry Boehm, Linnea Bozynski,
Melanie Parrent and Martha
Teagle. Dr. Clair Myers, head of
the School of Drama, is the direc-tor,
assisted by Nancy Weeks.
Lights were designed by Edith
Hook, sets by John Stark, and
costumes by Nicholas Mozak.
WILLIAM HOOD IS the show's
production stage manager,
Turn to page 2
Brrrr Last Sunday's snowstorm may have caught some students by sur-prise,
but junior biology major Robin Rothbard looks prepared for the
wintry onslaught. Photo by Eric Thomas
Lautz and Harmon
win senate elections
By Greg Tejeda
Dave Lautz, a junior biology
major, was elected to the
presidency of Student Senate last
Wednesday, taking 373 of the
total ballots cast. Steve Johnson,
Lautz's opponent, received 200
total votes.
For the role of vice-president,
Max Harmon defeated Bruce
Bonebrake, 400 votes to 186.
This year's election saw 612
students come out to vote, 38 per
cent of the total full time enroll-ment
at Wesleyan. This year's
turnout, however, failed to live up
to the recent streak of record
breaking turnouts. In 1981, a
record was established when 611
students turned out to vote. This
standard lasted only one year as
1982's election saw 692 people
come to the polls to vote. This
record was toppled in 1983 when a
staggering total of 832 students
voted.
As usual, there were a few
ballots that were found to be in-valid.
39 ballots were found to be
invalid for the presidential elec-tion,
and 26 ballots were found to
be invalid for the vice presiden-tial
election.
Students interested
in becoming
COMMISSIONERS
should see
Dave Lautz
As soon as possible
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Cast and crew of 'Working' to perform at Kennedy Cente
By Deanna Jent
Many Wesleyan students and
faculty will be taking an ab-breviated
Spring Break.
That's because the 35 member
cast and crew of the musical
"Working" will be going to
Washington D.C. to perform in
the Kennedy Center as the open-ing
production in the Amoco
American College Theatre Festi-val.
In January, "Working" partici-pated
in the regional A.C.T.F.
competitions in Rockford. There
are nine such regional compet-tions
across the United States,
and from these nine festivals, six
shows are chosen to perform at
the Kennedy Center.
"WORKING" WAS reportedly
rated the highest of the six shows
chosen for Washington, based on
numerical ratings given by
judges at the regional competi-tions.
Because of this honor, the
School of Drama will be very hec-tic
in the month of March. A chil-dren's
show will be presented in
McPherson on March 16, 17 and
18, just one week after "One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest" closes.
ACTF Winners
And just four days after the chil-dren's
show closes, on March 22,
a benefit performance of "Work-ing"
will be presented.
The benefit performance helps
both cast and crew get re-adjus-ted
to an audience, and helps
solidify the show in preparation
for the Kennedy Center perfor-mance.
SPRING BREAK starts March
23, but only five days later the
crew will return to campus to
load up the trucks. Set pieces,
costumes, props, instruments
and all the paraphenilla it takes
to make "Working" work will be
taken to Washington in these
trucks.
The rest of the people involved
in the show will be flown out to
Washington on April 1. "Work-ing"
is scheduled to be presented
three times: an evening perfor-mance
on April 2, and matinee
and evening performances on
April 3. The cast and crew will be
flown back to Illinois on April 4.
Ticket information for the
benefit performance of "Work-ing"
may be obtained by calling
556-3232, or by visiting the
McPherson Theatre Box Office
between 12:30 and 5:30 daily.
ILLINOIS WESLEYA
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN
UtIVERSIY IARIES
MAR
N
DEVOTED
"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
-A Graffito
TO THE CONCEPT OF FREE PRESS
Volume 90 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, March 2, 1984 Number 20
Brian to retire from School of Art By Mary Jane Helm
When Fred B. Brian retires this
spring to become Professor of
Art, Emeritus, he will leave a
faculty position which he has held
for 32 years, as well as an art
department extensively expand-ed
during his stay.
"Wesleyan has always been
unique in the fine arts," Brian
said, "That's one of the reasons
I've stayed."
Brian had an additional four-year
acquaintance with Wesley-an,
as he graduated from here in
1950, two years before assuming
his role as a faculty member. He
received a master of arts degree
in painting from the University of
Iowa in 1951.
IN 1971, Brian attained the top
faculty rank of professor and
served as acting director of the
School of Art from 1971-1973. At
the time he came to Wesleyan,
the art department was under the
School of Music. Gradually, the
department became independent
and began awarding bachelor of
fine arts degrees, Brian said.
Play explore:
By Deanna Jent
Are the lunatics inside the
asylums, or out?
And who's to say who's really
crazy?
These are some of the questions
explored in "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest," which plays in
McPherson Theatre March 1, 2, 3,
7, 8, 9, 10.
BASED ON THE novel by Ken
Kesey, the play (written by Dale
Wasserman) has been billed as a
"tragicomedy." This label ex-presses
a modern philosophy
which is also apparent through-out
the show: the seeming absur-dity
of life is both comic and
tragic.
"Cuckoo's Nest" takes place in
the day ward of a state mental
hospital. There are the acutes
(patients who can be helped
through therapy) and the
chronics (incurables). The
acutes include Dale Harding (D.
Scott Karnuth), Billy Bibbit (An-
Under Brian's guidance, the
printmaking department has ex-panded
steadily to include such
other media as intaglio, relief
painting, letterpress, book
design, photo-engraving, and
serigraphy. He explained that
anything printed is graphics, and
is still considered fine art. "It's
not commercial or graphic art,"
he said, "But it's design to
graphics."
Through the years, Brian has
witnessed a change, too, in the at-titudes
of students majoring in
art. They are more into graphic
design, he said, and more con-cerned
with job security after
they leave college. "It used to be
that students were almost exclu-sively
"fine art'," Brian said,
"They were pretty adventure-some
then, but if you look at most
of them now, they have jobs."
"I THINK THE business at
hand [in college] is to learn all
you can about your field," Brian
said. He said he encourages stu-dents
to go on to graduate school,
the question
drew Kreiss), Scanlon (Bryan
Jung), Cheswick (Daniel Cun-ningham),
and Martini (Willard
Walker). The chronics are
Ruckley (Steve Pickering) and a
deaf and mute Indian - Chief
Bromden (David Ratner).
A wise-cracking con-artist,
Randle P. McMurphy (John
Neisler), comes into the ward. A
transfer from the state work
farm, McMurphy turns out to be
a guiding influence on the other
patients, especially Chief
Bromden.
OPPOSING McMurphy's reck-less
approach to modern group
therapy is Nurse Ratched (Melin-da
MacDonald). Flanked by her
aides (Rick Lunn, James Unger),
an ineffectual doctor (Fredrick
Rubeck), and a nervous nurse
(Carol Mills), Ratched runs the
ward as precisely and effectively
as she starches her sterile white
uniform.
and Wesleyan usually has one or
two who do so each year.
While teaching, Brian has con-tinued
his own work, gaining
recognition throughout the
Midwest for works such as his
Willie Burmeister series which
depicts a fictional Lake Superior
airmail pilot.
Brian has not neglected his
faculty position, however, and
was named the IWU Century
Club Honoree for 1978-1979 by stu-dents
and faculty colleagues for
teaching excellence. Despite the
variety of courses taught by
Brian and other faculty in the art
department, Brian said, "I still
teach fine arts 100 per cent."
BRIAN PLANS TO resettle
soon in the Minneapolis/St. Paul
vicinity and set up a print studio.
He plans to do work there for
poets and writers, as well as
making his own prints, he said.
"Wesleyan's been pretty good
to me," Brian said. After 32 years
here, he's had plenty of time to
decide.
of craziness
The war between McMurphy
and Ratched leaves many battle-scars,
and none of the patients is
left unscathed. The "tragedy" of
Randle McMurphy is not classic
tragedy, but rather a tragedy of
modern society. When "crazy" is
in the eyes of the beholder -
when regulations run roughshod
over reality - there is definitely
a problem that needs examina-tion.
"Cuckoo's Nest" puts these
societal problems under the
miscroscope for all to view.
Other members of the cast are
Barry Boehm, Linnea Bozynski,
Melanie Parrent and Martha
Teagle. Dr. Clair Myers, head of
the School of Drama, is the direc-tor,
assisted by Nancy Weeks.
Lights were designed by Edith
Hook, sets by John Stark, and
costumes by Nicholas Mozak.
WILLIAM HOOD IS the show's
production stage manager,
Turn to page 2
Brrrr Last Sunday's snowstorm may have caught some students by sur-prise,
but junior biology major Robin Rothbard looks prepared for the
wintry onslaught. Photo by Eric Thomas
Lautz and Harmon
win senate elections
By Greg Tejeda
Dave Lautz, a junior biology
major, was elected to the
presidency of Student Senate last
Wednesday, taking 373 of the
total ballots cast. Steve Johnson,
Lautz's opponent, received 200
total votes.
For the role of vice-president,
Max Harmon defeated Bruce
Bonebrake, 400 votes to 186.
This year's election saw 612
students come out to vote, 38 per
cent of the total full time enroll-ment
at Wesleyan. This year's
turnout, however, failed to live up
to the recent streak of record
breaking turnouts. In 1981, a
record was established when 611
students turned out to vote. This
standard lasted only one year as
1982's election saw 692 people
come to the polls to vote. This
record was toppled in 1983 when a
staggering total of 832 students
voted.
As usual, there were a few
ballots that were found to be in-valid.
39 ballots were found to be
invalid for the presidential elec-tion,
and 26 ballots were found to
be invalid for the vice presiden-tial
election.
Students interested
in becoming
COMMISSIONERS
should see
Dave Lautz
As soon as possible
- '' 1 2~1 L - -L - -- --
r